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Set to take place on the anniversary of the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, the call for a national prison strike today, Friday, September 9, by those inside prison walls should not come as a surprise.

New Yorkers should visit nypdbodycameras.org now and take advantage of this rare opportunity to give input on not only how we are policed, but on how we will literally be watched. Body-worn cameras are often portrayed as simply the latest trend in police departments, which have eagerly gobbled them...

Last week , community members in San Jose, California spoke out at a forum on police body-cameras. Their number one concern: cameras being turned on or off “when police officers feel like it.” This shouldn’t be a surprise. Last November , two police officers equipped with body-worn cameras were...

Thirteen years ago, I received a letter at work. “Greetings from Hell,” it began. “For those who’ve never been there, that would be a prison in East Texas.” The letter was neatly hand-written with black ink in straight, evenly spaced lines across the blank white paper, a feat which those of us...